Celerra Unified Storage Implementation and Management (MR-9CN-UCSIM)

This course is intended for any person who:

• Architects, manages, or positions solutions with CLARiiON storage
• Configures, manages, or architects EMC NAS solutions with EMC Celerra

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should have knowledge and skills associated with:

• Familiarity with Celerra and CLARiiON models, components, management options, and features
• Data integrity and availability features found in a CLARiiON storage platform
• CLARiiON performance, storage configuration, and provisioning concepts
• PowerPath performance, transparent recovery and availability features in an open systems host environment
• SAN terminology, features, architecture, theory of operations, and management including Fibre Channel and IP storage networks concepts and EMC Connectrix switches
• Ethernet switch configuration including managed switch features such as VLANs and TCP/IP networking
• Ethernet settings including duplex, throughput, and port channeling
• Basic Microsoft Windows administration skills, including users/groups, files/directories, and domain infrastructures
• Basic UNIX administration skills, including managing users/groups and files/directories A list of specific prerequisite courses can be found in EMC Education Services Learning Management System.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand concepts related to CLARiiON hardware and software features
• Integrate open systems hosts into CLARiiON environments the EMC Unisphere suite in a practical environment
• Describe the functionality of Unisphere
• Implement Data Mover failover
• Implement basic network configurations as well as configure and manage Celerra file systems
• Export Celerra file systems for NFS and CIFS access
• Implement Virtual Data Movers
• Implement file system quotas on the Celerra
• Implement CIFS features
• Configure Celerra networking features

Modules

These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:

• CLARiiON Security and Basic Management
• CLARiiON Storage Provisioning and Management
• Host Integration – Basics
• Host Integration – Windows
• Host Integration – Linux
• Advanced Storage Pool and LUN Concepts
• Alerts and Event Monitor
• Unisphere
• Basic Network Configuration
• Configuring File Systems
• Exporting File Systems to UNIX
• Usermapper
• Configuring CIFS
• Virtual Data Movers
• Managing Permissions in a CIFS-only Environment
• Control Station Administration
• CIFS Features
• Celerra Startup Assistant with Provisioning Wizard
• Appendix

Labs

Labs reinforce the information you have been taught. The course consists of the following labs used to validate content presented in this course:

• Configuring CLARiiON Security with Unisphere Manager 6.x
• Introduction to EMC Unisphere Manager
• CLARiiON Storage System Configuration
• Create a storage pool using RAID Groups
• Create LUNs on RAID Groups and Thin Pools Verify Channel Connectivity
• Verify Host Connectivity
• Create Storage Groups
• Configuring Storage System Failover
• Configuring Host Access to CLARiiON LUNs
• Advanced Storage Pool LUN Operations
• Create an Event Monitor Template
• Examining and Displaying Alerts
• Using Unisphere
• Network access, File System Creation and Simple UNIX Export
• Securing NFS
• CIFS in a Microsoft-only Environment
• Authentication
• Celerra CIFS Features